Palestinian Authority

[ pal-uhs-tin-ee-uhn uh-thawr-i-tee, uh-thor-i-tee ]

noun

1. a governing body, established in 1994, having partial administrative control over Palestinian areas of the West Bank and also claiming authority over the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian Authority

1. A legal entity, established in 1994, by which Palestinians govern the parts of the Gaza Strip and West Bank that are not attached to Israel . Although divided on several issues, the leadership of the Palestinian Authority is committed to the establishment of a Palestinian state, which, it expects, will grow out of the Palestinian Authority. ( See Yasir Arafat , Oslo Accord .)

Example Sentences

He is known to have good relations with Lebanon’s various political parties, and during the U.S. presidential campaign, he helped deliver a letter to Trump from Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinian Authority.

From Los Angeles Times

One can imagine Trump receiving phone calls from kowtowing leaders the world over—Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, the Palestinian Authority’s Mahmoud Abbas, the chief of NATO, the European heads of state—all the while wondering about the man whom he’s admired publicly and privately for the past eight years: When is Vladimir going to call?

From Slate

Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority, reached out to Trump soon after the election, saying he hoped the two could achieve peace in the region.

From Slate

Last month, she argued there should be a “complete reassessment of US funding of the United Nations” after the Palestinian Authority tried to expel Israel from the UN over human rights abuses in Gaza.

From BBC

The European Commission identified what it called "anti-Semitic material" in the schoolbooks, "including even incitement to violence", and the European Parliament has called repeatedly for EU funding to the Palestinian Authority to be conditional on removing such content.

From BBC